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Henry A. Giroux argues that education holds a crucial role in shaping politics at a time when ignorance, lies and fake news have empowered right-wing groups and created deep divisions in society. Education, with its increasingly corporate and conservative-based technologies, is partly responsible for creating these division. It contributes to the pitting of people against each other through the lens of class, race, and any other differences that don't embrace White nationalism. Giroux's analysis ranges from the pandemic and the inequality it has revealed, to the rise of Trumpism and its afterlife, and to the work of Paulo Freire and how his book
Pedagogy of Hope can guide us in these dark times and help us produce critical and informed citizens. He argues that underlying the current climate of inequity, isolation, and social atomization (all exacerbated by the pandemic) is a crisis of education. Out of this comes the need for a pedagogy of resistance that is accessible to everyone, built around a vision of hope for an alternative society rooted in the ideals of justice, equality, and freedom.
List of contents
Foreword: The Pedagogy Force of Fascism, Brad Evans (University of Bath, UK)
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Making Education Central to Politics in the Age of Pandemics
Part I: The Crisis of Democracy and the deep roots of racial terror
1. The Dictatorship of Ignorance and the Crisis of the Public Imagination
2. America’s Nazi Problem and the Plague of Violence
3. Trumpism and Its Afterlife
Part II: The Crisis of Pedagogy
4. Fascist Culture and the Challenge to Critical Pedagogy,
5. Apartheid Pedagogy
Part III: From Hope to Resistance in the Age of Plagues
6. Rethinking Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope in Dark Times-
7. Towards a Pedagogy of Resistance
References
Index
About the author
Henry A. Giroux
Summary
Henry A. Giroux argues that education holds a crucial role in shaping politics at a time when ignorance, lies and fake news have empowered right-wing groups and created deep divisions in society. Education, with its increasingly corporate and conservative-based technologies, is partly responsible for creating these division. It contributes to the pitting of people against each other through the lens of class, race, and any other differences that don't embrace White nationalism. Giroux’s analysis ranges from the pandemic and the inequality it has revealed, to the rise of Trumpism and its afterlife, and to the work of Paulo Freire and how his book Pedagogy of Hope can guide us in these dark times and help us produce critical and informed citizens. He argues that underlying the current climate of inequity, isolation, and social atomization (all exacerbated by the pandemic) is a crisis of education. Out of this comes the need for a pedagogy of resistance that is accessible to everyone, built around a vision of hope for an alternative society rooted in the ideals of justice, equality, and freedom.
Foreword
Argues that education has assumed a crucial role in shaping politics at a time when ignorance, lies and fake news have empowered right-wing groups and created deep divisions in society.
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The brilliant and prolific educational theorist and political commentator Henry Giroux’s latest book is essential reading. Rooting our descent into 21st Century fascism in a “dictatorship of ignorance” imposed by corporate rule and neoliberal ideology, Giroux offers the antidote: a democratic pedagogical transformation that equips citizens to understand, resist, and overcome oppression.
